A couple of issues with my site.

**Abunada** · 07-25-2011, 08:53 PM

Hi Guys

This is my first post in these forums, so I hope I can get help because I am desperate. I created a template for my site and it consists of a single HTML file, a single CSS file, and several images. It was based on a template found online but I completely rewrote everything. It has a simple header with a logo, a horizontal drop down menu, a sidebar, main content and footer areas.

I am no CSS expert, and I have got a few problems that I just can\t get over. Firstly (and I thought that should be simple), I can't add top margin to my footer. I wanted to add that so that I get a little bit of space between the main content area and the footer. If I add it to the footer div simply nothing will happen.

The second thing is my drop down menu, I kind of struggled but I got to work on a single level, but as soon as I add submenus (within the child li tags) it just does not work (even if I add the appropriate styling in the CSS folder). Also for some weird reason I cant set the width to auto because it breaks the links into two lines for some reason and screws up the formatting. When I set the UL tag's width to a fixed width it works perfectly.

Below is both my CSS and HTML, also I have uploaded the files to my domain so that you can see the problems live at http://www.eratronics.net/
Thanks and sorry for the long post

Code:

* 
{ 
	margin: 0; 
	padding: 0;
	outline: 0 
}

body 
{
	background: #f7f0e3;
	font: 11px/1.7em Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;
	color: #666666; 
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 0 50px 0;
}

a, 
a:visited 
{	
	color: #5A93C9;
	background: inherit;
	text-decoration: none;	
}

a:hover 
{
	color: #88ac0b;
	background: inherit;
	text-decoration: underline;	
}

h1, 
h2, 
h3 
{
	font-family: Tahoma, Sans-serif;
	color: #444;
}

h1 
{
	font-size: 3.1em;
	font-weight: normal;
	letter-spacing: -1px;
}

h2 
{
	font-size: 3em;
	color: #88ac0b;
}

h3 
{
	font-size: 1.8em;
	font-weight: normal;	
}

h1, 
h2, 
h3, 
p 
{
	padding: 10px;		
	margin: 0;
}

ul, ol 
{
	margin: 5px 20px;
	padding: 0 20px;
}

ul 
{
	list-style: none;
}

img 
{
	background: #fafafa;
        border: 1px solid #dcdcdc;
	padding: 8px;
}

#wrap 
{
	position: relative;
	background: #fff url(../images/wrap-bg.jpg) repeat-y;
	width: 900px;	
	margin: 50px auto 0 auto;
	text-align: left;
}

#content-wrap 
{
	position: relative;
	background: #fff url(../images/content-bg.jpg) repeat-x;
	clear: both;
	float: left;	
	width: 870px;	
	padding: 0; 			
	margin-left: 15px;	
	display: inline;
	border-top: 5px solid #fff;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e5e5e5;
	border-left: 1px solid #fff;
	border-right: 1px solid #fff;
}

#header 
{
	position: relative;
	background: #fff url(../images/header-bg.jpg) repeat-x;
	width: 870px;	
	height: 100px;	
	padding: 0;	
	margin: 0px auto;
}

#header img.logo-image
{
	width: 270px;
	height: 75px;
	background: none;
	border: none;
	position: absolute;
	top: 21px;
	left: 10px;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

#nav 
{
    clear: both;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    float: left;	
	width: auto;
}

#nav ul 
{
	float: left;
	list-style: none;	
	width: 870px;		
    height: 45px;
    margin: 0;
	margin-left: 15px;
	padding: 0;	
	background: url(../images/nav.jpg) repeat-x;
}

#nav ul li 
{
	position: relative;
    float: left;

}

#nav ul li a 
{
	display: block;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0 14px;
	border-right: 1px solid #899D00;
	border-left: 1px solid #A7D101;
	font: bold 14px/45px Verdana, Tahoma, "Century Gothic", "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;	
	color: #fff;
    background: url(../images/nav.jpg) repeat-x;
}

#nav ul li a:hover, 
#nav ul li a:active 
{
	background: url(../images/nav-hover.jpg) repeat-x;	
}

#nav ul li#current a 
{	
	background: url(../images/nav-current.jpg) repeat-x;	
}

#nav ul li ul
{
	position: absolute;
    z-index: 500;
    display: none;
    margin-left: 0px;
	width: 300px;
}

#nav ul li:hover ul
{
	display: block;
}

#nav ul li ul li
{
    float: none;
}

#main 
{
	float: right;
	width: 600px;
	padding: 0; margin: 10px 0 0 10px;
	padding-right: 10px;
	display: inline;	
}

#main h2 
{
	margin-top: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 3px;
	font: 2.9em/1em Tahoma, Sans-serif;
	color: #895F30;
	letter-spacing: -1px;	
	text-transform: none;
}

#main h2 a 
{
	color: #895F30; 
	text-decoration: none;	
}

#main ul li 
{
	list-style-image: url(../images/bullet.gif);
}

#sidebar 
{
	float: left;
	width: 230px;
	padding: 0; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
	padding-left: 10px;
    display: inline;
}

#sidebar h3 
{
	margin-top: 10px;
    margin-left: 5px;
	padding: 5px 5px; 
	font: normal 1.9em Tahoma, Sans-serif;
	color: #899B0D;
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu 
{
	text-align: left;
	margin: 10px 10px 8px 8px; padding: 0;
	border-top: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu li 
{
	list-style: none;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
	padding: 8px 5px;
	margin: 0;
}

* html body #sidebar ul.sidemenu li 
{
	height: 1%;
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu li a:link,
#sidebar ul.sidemenu li a:visited 
{
	color: #895F30;
    padding-left: 0;
	font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu li a span 
{
	color: #9F9F9F;
	font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, Serif;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu li a:hover 
{ 
	color: #000; 
	text-decoration: none; 
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu ul 
{ 
	margin: 0 0 0 5px; 
	padding: 0; 
}

#sidebar ul.sidemenu ul li 
{ 
	background: none; 
}

#footer-wrap 
{
	clear: both;
	width: 900px;
	text-align: left;		
	border-bottom: 15px solid #fff;
	border-top: 1px solid #fff;
	
}

#footer-wrap a:hover 
{
	color: #000;	
}

#footer-wrap h3 
{
	color: #976834;
	margin: 10px 0 20px 0;
	padding: 0 10px; 
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 1.6em;
	padding-top: 20px;
}

#footer-bottom 
{
	clear: both;
	color: #666;	
	margin: 0 auto; 
	width: 870px;
	text-align: center;
    font-size: .95em;
}

#footer-bottom  a 
{
	color: #976834;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.float-left  
{ 
	float: left; 
}

.float-right 
{ 
	float: right; 
}

.align-left  
{ 
	text-align: left; 
}

.align-right 
{ 
	text-align: right; 
}

.fix 
{
	clear: both;
	height: 1px;
	margin: -1px 0 0;
	overflow: hidden;
}

.clear 
{ 
	display:inline-block; 
}

.clear:after 
{
	display: block;
	visibility: hidden;
	clear: both;
	height: 0;
	content: " ";
}

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" type="text/css" />
<title>Eratronics</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
	<div id="header">							
	<img src="images/logo.png" class="logo-image" />
	</div>
	
	<div id="nav">
		<ul>
			<li id="current"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
			<li><a href="index.html">About</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="index.html">About Me</a></li>
					<li><a href="index.html">About Us</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li><a href="index.html">Tutorials</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="index.html">Electronics</a></li>
					<li><a href="index.html">Microcontrollers</a></li>
					<li><a href="index.html">Lab Skills</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
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				</ul>
			</li>
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			<li><a href="index.html">Contact</a></li>		
		</ul>
	</div>
	
	<div id="content-wrap">
		<div id="main">	
			<h2>Comming Soon!</h2>
			<p align="justify">
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		<div id="footer-bottom">		
			<p>
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</div>
</body>
</html>

**Abunada** · 07-26-2011, 04:05 AM

Come on Guys Please. ANY form of help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!!

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